Joe Thwagi

In December 2021, I preached a Christmas sermon titled, “The King and the Gospel,” based on the Lukan narrative of the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. This blog article serves as a summation of the sermon, and a prequel to the sermon I delivered at Upendo Gospel Community Church on December 24th, 2024, titled, “The

How Christ is the Greater Job Last year, I preached twice from the book of Job at Trinity Baptist Church, Donholm. You can find the sermons here and here. I have tried to compress all that into the 5 lessons below that Job teaches us concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. The book of Job, it has been said,

Twelve Theses on the Papacy: A Reformed Protestant Response Rome has a new Pope. Leo XIV is the name. He is an American (with Peruvian citizenship). This is a first for North America, which was once the land successfully built by the descendants of the Puritans and Huguenots. The world is excited about this new

Has it ever occurred to you how easy it is to prioritize everything else over the work of the Lord? You tidy up your life, fix your leaking kitchen sink, pay your bills, save for your children’s education, invest your money, expand your career portfolio, and yet, when it comes to God’s work, you tell

Discipline in the Church Discipline. A word that evokes respect in many spheres of life but, sadly, fear and contempt within local churches. We admire athletes who endure rigorous training, businessmen who structure their lives with relentless discipline, and scholars who dedicate themselves to years of study – look at some of the comments of

2 Timothy 3:10-17 (NKJV): Nine Marks of a Healthy Pastor But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in